Informative Pages

Add Brushes

How to save, export, and import brushes in Photoshop

Helpful Articles and Videos

A few articles and lots of videos on Photoshop painting techniques

Color Origins

Interesting story on the origins of different paint colors

Trompe L'oeil Examples

Examples of Trompe L'oeil project by prior students

Workable Setups

Hardware and software configurations that will work for this class.

Class 01

• Syllabus Review
• Backing Up
• History of Digital Painting Applications
• Using a Graphics Tablet
• Setting Up For Art Aerobics
• Assigned: Assignment 1: Line Art [ SPECS ]

Class 02

• Still Life Project Reviewed
• About WOrkload
• Line Art Assignment Reviewed
• Photoshop Doc and Brush Setup
• Procreate Doc and Brush Setup
• Affinity Doc and Brush Setup
• Photoshop Layers
• Tracing Techniques
• Drawing Techniques
• Zoom & Pan
• Canvas Rotation
• Brush Cursors
• Choosing Colors
• Advanced Topic: Layers for Occlusion
• Changing Colors
• Clipping Masks

Class 03

• Changing Colors
• Saving Versions
• Add a Scratch Work Area
• Changing Colors in Procreate

Class 04

• Due: Assignment 1: Line Art
• Assigned: Assignment 2: Pen and Ink [ SPECS]
• Hatching
• Hatching Videos

Class 05

• Hatching Demo
• Things Escaping Demo

Class 06

• Assignment 2: Pen and Ink Review
• Things Escaping So Far
• Anaglyphic 3D Drawings
• Preview: How To Colorize I

• Fixing Your Lines
• Color On Lines
• Color Over Lines
• Color Behind Lines
• Color in a Layer Mask
• Color in an Alpha Mask

Class 07

• Due: Assignment 2: Pen and Ink
• Assigned: Assignment 3: Tinted Drawing [ SPECS]
• How To Colorize II: A Quick & Dirty Way
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Class 08

• How To Colorize in Photoshop Reviewed
• Using Brush Opacity and the Blend Tool to paint

Class 09

• Due: Assignment 3: Colored Drawing
• Assigned: Assignment 4: Colored Pencil [ SPECS ]
• Setting up the Colored Pencil Assignment

Class 10

• Working with Colored Pencils in Photoshop Continued
• Download MART325_Color_Pencils.abr.zip Adobe Brushes for Assignment 4
• Download MART325_Color_Pencils.brushset Procreate Brushes for Assignment 4
• Painting Metalics

Spring Break

• No class or Zoom meeting

Class 11

• Colored Pencils for Procreate
• Due: Assignment 4: Colored Pencil
• Assigned: Assignment 5: Color Brush [ SPECS ]
• Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
• Important Keyboard Shortcuts for Brushes
• Photoshop Brush Videos

Class 12

• More on Brushes

Class 13

Canceld due to Flex Day

Class 14

• Due: Assignment 5: Color Brush
• Assigned: Assignment 6: Trompe L'oeil [ SPECS ]
• Digital Painters
• David Em
• Burt Monroy
• David Hockney

Class 15

• Trompe L'oeil Examples
• How to set up your photo for Assigment 5

Class 16

• TBD

Class 17

• How to make a PDF of your Sketches
• Movie: Tim's Vermeer

Class Final

• Due: Assignment 6: Trompe L'oeil
• Due: Semester Assignment: Sketchbook PDF